Psalms 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
In Context
13Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Cross References
Numbers 30:2And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:
Deuteronomy 23:21When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.
Deuteronomy 23:23But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.
Job 22:27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
Psalms 22:26With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
Psalms 50:23The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:8-16
The Inefficacy of Legal Sacrifices. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not… Read the whole commentary →